Jack gave Hurley the baptism while the golden shower was off. So Jack was powerless. And the water was cloudy and off at that point. How could Jack give his role at that moment to Hurley if he was powerless?
you're presuming the magic water powered jacob and the smoke monster equally. i can't say that it didn't, but there's nothing to say it did. instead, i'm assuming it removed the smoke monster's invincibility, the island's stability, and alpert's youth.
So it stopped all the magic shit on the island
except for Jack's power to transfer guardianship powers to Hugo? Oooooooooookay........ Nothing at all inconsistent or illogical about
that.Rob, you want to keep doing the writers' jobs for them to this extent, cool. Have fun.
And I want to make clear. While I'm pointing out what as I see as flaws in the final season, I think the overall show was a helluva ride.
But, dang it, who would have thought that after watching a show for 6 years the "big pay off" was in fact an explanation of something that they only introduced 18 episodes ago and very little about the stuff from the first five seasons?
They basically dropped, in the last season, almost everything about the actual premise of the show: Plane crashes on a freaky island and strange shit happens to them which continually gets stranger every single goddam episode. Instead of coming up with a reason for that we get "forget all of the past 5 seasons happened, we'll introduce something new and explain that instead, inconsistently."
And while the characters were a lot of the appeal there's something off putting about setting them up in a story about one thing and then dropping it for something very different. Almost as if, in the last season, Seinfeld became a cop show...or Star Trek a show about wizardry that took place in the past.
Why have all of this crazy sci-fi stuff happening for no reason at all? None of it meant anything in the overall scheme of things. They could have, if they really wanted the show to be about "magic" and the light and Jacob, jettisoned large chunks of the storyline that turned out to be irrelevant (the time travel, sonic fences, Widdemore, the Dharma stations, babies dying, Walt, etc.) from the get go and spent more time in seasons 1-5 building up a "magic" mythology...one that actually held together for season six.
